With my daughter’s wedding happening today, I thought I would give some tips on wedding speeches. And as public speaking trainer and coach, all the members of the bridal party have asked my advice on how to structure their speeches and what they should say? My advice was always, what is you core message, what one thing do you want …
Learn To Relax – Just a Little
I have previously written about the role anxiety plays when public speaking and how when you do your “anxiety reality check” you are in fact looking twice as good, to your audience, than you think you are. Your self-perception is always twice as harsh as it needs to be. Now even if you are anxious and nervous and the audience …
Know your audience
When I speak about preparing to get ready for a presentation, one of the 3 levels of preparation that I always get people to focus on is to “know your audience”. Get as much information as you can about the audience and then you can ensure that the content is targeted, you dress at the right level, and all material …
More Mistakes When Speaking – 6 to 10
6. Ending with question time – never end with questions. Take questions before you conclude, wrap up question time and then conclude strongly and stop talking. You want to leave them with your powerful take home message, not some contentious or irrelevant question asked by an audience member. 7. Speaking to your PowerPoint Slides – the PowerPoint slides are to …
Common Mistakes When Public Speaking – 1 to 5.
1. Not being fully prepared – notes out of order, PowerPoint not working, rushing or running late, DVD not compatible with the laptop provided, insufficient hand outs. 2. Apologising for things unnecessarily – sorry I don’t know the answer to that – sorry for my change of topic; if you don’t know the answer or have to change your topic, …
Anxiety Reality Check
One of things that I see consistently when running my public speaking workshops, is the person who stands up and presents effectively, calmly and professionally and then sits down with a sigh of relief. When you ask them to score that speaking experience on an anxiety scale of 1 to 10, where 0 is so calm you are almost asleep …